[arch-general] Future of 'kernel26'

[Tom Gundersen]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Yaro Kasear <yaro at marupa.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:20:46 Bernardo Barros wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> There are rumors that the next version number of the Linux Kernel is
>> going to be 3.0.
>> Since we choosed 'kernel26' as the package name, we will have to
>> modify it anyway.
>> Why not just 'linux 3.0'? Just an idea.. since we have the fellow
>> project 'Arch Hurd' providing 'hurd' as an alternative different
>> kernel already.
>>
>> Best,
>> Bernardo
>
> What rumors are these? A quick Google search shows nothing of the sort aside
> from idle speculation from years ago.

Check lkml.org.

Aside from that (and I realise that this is contrary to the spirit of
bikshedding): I agree with Thomas (if eventually the kernel package
changes names, and regardless of what it changes to, the new name
should not contain a version number).

-t